slow windows 7 bootup

[GJ02]

what can cause slow win7 bootup times ?
ive just used my upgrade disk and realised its uber slow bootup
vista was about 40 seconds with win7 in knocking on 74secs
any suggestions ?

 

[Marvin]

Try cleaning the registry, doing a defragment etc - there'll be a ton of random files all over the place after the upgrade.

Obviously, doing a fresh install would also help...

 

[LeeKeery]

Obviously, doing a fresh install would also help...

+1

 

[UnworthyBean]

Is it slow all the time? First time (and maybe the second) you boot it, It will be slow but then should get to normal after that.

 

[bastic]

try switching off AHCI in BIOS.
Lukas

 

[GJ02]

it seem to hang the most on the welcome screen

 

[GJ02]

try switching off AHCI in BIOS.
Lukas

hmm whats that lucas ?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

It could be that that updates are occuring. Give it a week and see how things go. If it still continues after then, then perform a full install, with a quick format on the windows partition.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

try switching off AHCI in BIOS.
Lukas

Can't see it being this.. AHCI requires a driver set on installation. Wouldn't work at all otherwise.

 

[GJ02]

thanks admiral, ill see what happens
nice website btw ! like the ears too

 

[Leezy]

Go in Msconfig and enable all cores on startup and also check 'No GUI Boot'.
See if that helps a lil bit.
Ill try and find the thread that has a list of tweaks that aid's startup speed.

EDIT: Take a look at this thread got some good tweaks for non-ssd users, look at the General Windows 7 Performance Tweaks section

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?63273-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-Utilities-*

 

[Admiral Huddy]

 

[Ricardox1]

I get this but I got told it coul be low voltages in the bios, been tweaking with them and sitll no lucky, trying to defrag now, I also noticed that the samsung F3 drive is 2x faster than my current hard drive, hopefully buying this may speed the boot process up to as well as loading games quicker.

 

[UKDTweak]

One more thing.... do you have the background set to just a plain Black image... this used to cause a slow logon screen for a lot of users when W7 was first released..

 

[GJ02]

well ive just taken onboard leezy's advice ( thanks )
enables 4 cores as appose to one, and ive disables loads of stuff at startup, printer s/w, itunes, google updates etc etc, and its a lot faster
thanks for help so far

 

[PhoenixUK]

Can't see it being this.. AHCI requires a driver set on installation. Wouldn't work at all otherwise.

Don't ask me why and how but it actually solved the problem ; ).

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Nice one.. we learn something new every day. I'm confused as to why this was on in the first place?? Anyway, my apologies to bastic

 

[PhoenixUK]

Nice one.. we learn something new every day. I'm confused as to why this was on in the first place?? Anyway, my apologies to bastic

Dunno, but seems an issue with gigabyte mobos I think, had it happend in 3 of them for me. I knew it's something with HDD since it's literally hanging on loading screen like it was searching for something.

Any chance the OP has a GA mobo as well?

Again, I don't know as much about this as you so I have no idea why exactly it's like that but if it works for some then I guess it's worth checking !

 

[GJ02]

im on a p5qpro as in sig

 

[ejr22]

EDIT: Take a look at this thread got some good tweaks for non-ssd users, look at the General Windows 7 Performance Tweaks section

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?63273-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-Utilities-*

Some good tips in there - just shaved some valuable seconds off my boot-time by implementing a few. Cheers!